Provincetown resident Brian Carlson has been named the 2012-13 recipient of a $1,000 scholarship, awarded annually to a student at Suffolk University’s Sawyer School of Management on Cape Cod.

Applicants must submit an essay on how their lives have been affected by breast cancer within their immediate family. Carlson’s essay described his mother’s cancer diagnosis in 1992 and his own subsequent interest in the links between the disease and environmental factors. He went on to receive two degrees in environmental studies, and has been health and environmental affairs manager in Provincetown for seven years. He expects to graduate from Suffolk’s MPA program in 2013.